Nick Coghlan wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 6:24 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> at <http://dpo.gbrandl.de/contents>, you can look at a version of the 3.2 >> docs that has the upcoming commenting feature. JavaScript is mandatory. > > Very nice! > > I'm not sure what to do about the discoverability of the comment > bubbles as the end of each paragraph. I initially thought commenting > wasn't available on What's New or the Using Python docs until seeing > where the blue comment bubbles appeared in the math module docs. I wonder what the point of the comment bubbles is? This isn't a graphical UI where (contrary to popular opinion) a picture is *not* worth a thousand words, but may require a help-bubble to explain. This is text. If you want to make a comment on some text, the usual practice is to add more text :) I wasn't able to find a comment bubble that contained anything, so I don't know what sort of information you expect them to contain -- every one I tried said "0 comments". But it seems to me that comments are superfluous, if not actively harmful: (1) Anything important enough to tell the reader should be included in the text, where it can be easily seen, read and printed. (2) Discovery is lousy -- not only do you need to be running Javascript, which many people do not for performance, privacy and convenience[*], but you have to carefully mouse-over the paragraph just to see the blue bubble, and THEN you have to *precisely* mouse-over the bubble itself. (3) This will be a horrible and possibly even literally painful experience for anyone with a physical disability that makes precise positioning of the mouse difficult. (4) Accessibility for the blind and those using screen readers will probably be non-existent. (5) If the information in the comment bubbles is trivial enough that we're happy to say that the blind, the disabled and those who avoid Javascript don't need it, then perhaps *nobody* needs it. [*] In my experience, websites tend to fall into two basic categories: those that don't work at all without Javascript, and those that run better, faster, and with fewer anti-features and inconveniences without Javascript. -- Steven
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